The Project Rots from the Head: How Senior Managers Can Stop Projects from Failing, Forever
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The best projects are a result of the person who leads it or the environment they create. In short, leadership and culture. If you want to be successful in all of your projects, then this is where you start. You then use the methods to support you in creating the right approach and capturing the information necessary to help you stay on track. Only by doing it this way can a project sponsor and project manager jointly ensure that projects meet stakeholder expectations around time, cost, and scope.
Make no mistake, however - successful delivery starts and ends with you.
This audiobook is a how-to guide and will provide you with all the information you need to be successful in your project sponsorship. It focuses on the three key areas of project sponsorship: stewardship, decisions, and results.
As a project sponsor, you have a unique opportunity to positively affect the lives of others and leave a lasting legacy for others to copy. As a sponsor and senior leader, it’s your job to create and evolve a culture of successful delivery. It starts with you. Don’t let your project rot from the head.
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What if you can successfully coach anyone in 15, five, or even 60 seconds using one question? Sales Leadership makes delivering consistent, high-impact coaching easy. For busy, caring managers, this removes the pressure and misconception that, "Coaching is difficult, doesn't work, and I don't have time to coach." Since most managers don't know how to coach, they become part of the non-stop, problem-solving legion of frustrated Chief Problem Solvers who habitually do other's work, create dependency, and nourish the seed of mediocrity.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Link to collateral mentioned in the book was dead
- By Gina Godsey on 01-22-19
By: Keith Rosen MCC
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The Outstanding Organization
- Generate Business Results by Eliminating Chaos and Building the Foundation for Everyday Excellence
- By: Karen Martin
- Narrated by: Karen Martin
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
After two decades in the trenches of helping companies design and build better, more efficient operations, Karen Martin has pinpointed why performance improvement programs usually fail: Chaos, the sneaky but powerful force that frustrates customers, keeps business leaders awake at night, and saps company morale. In The Outstanding Organization, Karen offers a toolbox for combating chaos by creating the organizational conditions that will allow your improvement efforts to return greater gains.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good breadth, shallow depth
- By aochoa19 on 02-09-21
By: Karen Martin
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The High-Potential Leader
- How to Grow Fast, Take on New Responsibilities, and Make an Impact
- By: Ram Charan, Geri Willigan
- Narrated by: Bob Reed
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 56
Companies need high potential leaders (Hi-Pos) more than ever before to help them adapt to today's tumultuous, digitally-driven business environment. If you meet the Hi-Po criteria, you're in high demand - and this book explains how to fast-track yourself.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book for people wanting to climb the corporate ladder and for executives to accelerate high - potential leaders
- By Niel on 06-23-19
By: Ram Charan, and others
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The Making of a Manager
- What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
- By: Julie Zhuo
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Julie Zhuo
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,803
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,457
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,449
Having managed dozens of teams spanning tens to hundreds of people, Julie Zhuo knows the most important lesson of all: Great managers are made, not born. The Making of a Manager is a modern field guide packed with everyday examples and transformative insights you need to be the kind of manager you wish you had.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Drink the Facebook Kool Aid
- By Amazon_Customer on 03-29-19
By: Julie Zhuo
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Journey to the Emerald City
- By: Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman
- Narrated by: Wayne Shepherd
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4 out of 5 stars 36
Building on the success of their previous title, The Oz Principle, Connors and Smith explore the direct link between a company's culture and the results it produces. Journey to the Emerald City details a clear road map for accelerating the move to a culture of accountability in which people focus on achieving the results critical to a company's future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every creative leaders go to book
- By June on 01-08-18
By: Roger Connors, and others
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Clarity First
- How Smart Leaders and Organizations Achieve Outstanding Performance
- By: Karen Martin
- Narrated by: Karen Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 55
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Story4 out of 5 stars 54
Through her global consulting projects, keynote speeches, and work with thousands of leaders, Karen has seen first-hand how a pervasive lack of clarity strangles business performance and erodes employee engagement. Ambiguity is the corporate default state, a condition so prevalent that “tolerance for ambiguity” has become a clichéd job requirement. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not for me - dislike narrator's voice +
- By sharing1 on 10-11-19
By: Karen Martin
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Power Listening
- Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All
- By: Bernard T Ferrari
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 88
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 73
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Story4 out of 5 stars 71
Listening is harder than it looks - but it's the difference between business success and failure. Nothing causes bad decisions in organizations as often as poor listening. But Bernard Ferrari, adviser to some of the nation's most influential executives, believes that such missteps can be avoided and that the skills and habits of good listening can be developed and mastered. He offers a step-by-step process that will help you become an active listener, able to shape and focus any conversation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better listening made easy
- By Alejandro A. on 09-07-12
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Up Your Business
- 7 Steps to Fix, Build, or Stretch Your Organization
- By: Dave Anderson
- Narrated by: Dave Anderson
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 87
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Story5 out of 5 stars 65
You'll find the following in Up Your Business: effective interview questions and strategies; a sample ad that attracts eagles and weeds out turkeys; three dozen high-impact training strategies; the three keys to weeding out entitlement in your business; your three options for dealing with poor performers; how to create vision and strategy for your business; and much, much more!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hard-hitting, Practical and Pithy Wisdom
- By Christopher on 11-22-11
By: Dave Anderson
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More Than a Boss
- Six Indispensable Leadership Tools For First-Time Managers
- By: Nick Brzozowski
- Narrated by: Joe Scalora
- Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story5 out of 5 stars 32
This is an audiobook about the basics. I won’t tell you how to become CEO or double your salary, but if your hope is to become the boss that you would have wanted, this is the audiobook for you.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wasn’t expecting a DEI push in this book but yet there it is in chapter 2. I will not be finishing it.
- By Jake Beard on 10-27-24
By: Nick Brzozowski
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What the Heck is EOS?
- A Complete Guide for Employees in Companies Running on EOS
- By: Gino Wickman, Tom Bouwer
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,374
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,118
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,101
Has your company struggled to roll EOS out to all levels of your organization? Do your employees understand why EOS is important or even what it is? What the Heck is EOS? is for the millions of employees in companies running their businesses on EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System). An easy and fast listen, this book answers the questions many employees have about EOS and their company.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Get Ready for a WBOA
- By El Barto on 03-26-21
By: Gino Wickman, and others
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- Jessica Collins
- 09-27-22
As a Senior PM this is great listen
Full of great reminders for leadership on PM teams. I enjoyed the quality of the audio, it’s not long and daunting or full of jargon. It’s comprehensive and common sense ideas that leaders need to be regularly reminded of and a great listen for refocusing.
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